Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RoyalCities (The King’s City: A Comparative Study of Royal Patronage in Assur, Nineveh, and Babylon in the First Millennium BCE)

Cities had a special status in ancient Mesopotamia as centers of civilization. The first city in the world was founded there 6,000 years ago, and Mesopotamian mythology claimed that the gods themselves created the cities, even before creating humankind to live in them...